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GRAMMAR FOCUS: SIMPLE PAST

Getting Started Read the text bellow and pay attention to the italic words.

Akane's Winter Vacation

Last year, I went to Portugal just after Christmas. And I stayed there until… well, just after New
Year's this year. In Portugal, I met up with one of my friends from Toronto. He had family that
lived in Portugal, because his family was originally from Portugal. So, they were kind enough to
let me stay with them. I didn’t know any Portuguese, except for some simple words like “hello”,
and “thank you”. I learned some simple words through an audio CD, before I went there. And
the people that I stayed with didn’t know very much English either. However, we got along
surprisingly well. They were surprised that I was able to eat some of their exotic foods. They
made some delicious meals every single day, like octopus, tripe and rabbit. It is quite exotic, but
I thought it was quite good. They also made some excellent desserts, like crème caramel, and a
rich sponge cake that they call Paon d’lo.
Source: https://www.elllo.org/english/beginner/B25-AkaneHoward-Vacation.htm

Mini discussion:  Can you identify regular and irregular verbs in the text above?
 What are the differences between the two verbs?

ANSWER :

Example from text Reguler Verbs Irregular Verbs

stay-stayed-stayed go-went-gone

Live-lived-lived meet-met-met

Learn-learned-learned get-got-gotten

Think-thought-thought

Do-did-done

Make-made-made

Have-had-had
It 1. was a beautiful summer’s day and there 2. wasn’t a cloud in the sky. Mom, Dad and I 3.

Were all in the garden. Dad 4. was in the vegetable garden planting some seeds and Mom and I

5. were busy with other jobs. The sun 6. Was hot and soon I 7. was feeling very tired. Mom and

Dad 8. weren’t tired at all. They went on working for a long time. I 9. was glad when it 10. was

time to go inside and have a drink.

1. I (losed / lost) my watch in the park.

2. David (hurt / hurted) his knee when he (falled / fell).

3. I kicked the ball hard and it (breaked / broke) a window.

4. My new shoes (cost / costed) a lot of money.

5. I (getted / got) this book from the library.

6. We had a garage where we (keeped / kept) our car.

7. Ali (shew / showed) me the cut on his knee.

8. The glass (falled / fell) off the table and (breaked / broke).

9. We (selled / sold) our old car and (buyed / bought) a new one.

10. The bell (ringed / rang) and we all (goed / went) into school.

11. The dog (catched / caught) the ball in its mouth.

12. The man (kneeled / knelt) down to talk to the little boy.
13. I (meeted / met) my friend in the park.

14. Our cat (runned / ran) onto the road in front of a car.

15. Jane (writed / wrote) a letter to her best friend.

ANSWER :

1. I lost my watch in the park.

2. David hurt his knee when he fell.

3. I kicked the ball hard and it broke a window.

4. My new shoes cost a lot of money.

5. I got this book from the library.

6. We had a garage where we kept our car.

7. Ali showed me the cut on his knee.

8. The glass fell off the table and broke.

9. We sold our old car and bought a new one.

10. The bell rang and we all went into school.

11. The dog caught the ball in its mouth.

12. The man knelt down to talk to the little boy.

13. I met my friend in the park.

14. Our cat ran onto the road in front of a car.

15. Jane wrote a letter to her friend.